In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of
unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence
from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an
implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the
whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and
their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in
the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man
named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever
know.